One of Radio’s character quirks is to label things she’s never done as ‘scary’.

I can agree that an awful lot of things that remain untried could be classed as ‘scary’. For example, I’d be apprehensive about doing a tightrope walk over shark-infested water. I’m not sure that Radio’s fears really belong in this category, so, one by one, I’ve tried to encourage her to do ‘scary’ things.

She’s now showered several times (a fear of running water causing her no end of misery when hotels don’t have baths and she has to stay there for a while), rowed a boat, driven a car a little bit, and has now been able to somewhat stymie her instinct to squeal if I raise her so much as an inch off the ground.

Yesterday was another occasion to demonstrate to her that she can do everyday things that she thinks are scary.

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